By Richard Powers
After 4 novels and several other years residing overseas, the fictitious protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the U.S. as Humanist-in-Residence on the huge, immense heart for the examine of complex Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist cause upon modeling the human mind by way of computer-based neural networks. Lentz comprises Powers in an outlandish and impossible to resist venture: to coach a neural web on a canonical record of serious Books. via repeated tutorials, the gadget grows progressively extra worldly, until eventually it calls for to grasp its personal identify, intercourse, race, and reason behind exisiting.
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